[SFDXA] New LoTW software

Mon May 20 20:40:33 EDT 2013

Some added comment - 
Dave Bernstein AA6YQ is the lead person on the LoTW improvement project, and he is also the author of one of the leading logging programs DXLAB Suite, which a 'free' program.  The issues early this year with LoTW bogging down from contest log dumps, duplications and high rate of upload frequency which was not foreseen.  Duplications exploded, logs were lost (file names overwritten), and the whole process appeared to be grinding to a halt based on the vociferous complaints from users.  However my experience all through that period was for all practical evaluation was business as usual.  I credit this to the logging software I am using, DXLab.  First to upload to LoTW, or eQSL, or ClubLog it is but one or two key clicks. Each submission searches your log for new QSO's (or modified Q's) puts them in que as ADIF, and automatically uploads.  I generally upload daily with a quantity of contacts ranging from a few to dozens. Contact matches are flagged,
 progress stats are updated and all in matter of seconds.  My point is I never saw the LoTW issues that so many were complaining about, and I think the reason was the data I sent was clean and without dupes. I did contribute to one problem unknowingly and that was my frequent uploads,daily.  The system was planned on a much longer interval of weeks or even months.  The problem was each upload gets a unique file name, and the ran out of names and then some were overwritten and those old data lost.  

If you read what some of the features that have been incorporated in the new 1.14 TQSL you will see the influence of Dave AA6YQ experience with DXLag being applied.  Duplication flagged, data errors corrected and others.  These cleaner ADIF files, and the added improvements the league made in hardware should address the major problems of earlier this year.

In my case the logging software I use isolated me from the issues LoTW was creating for others.  

Norm W4QN

________________________________
 From: Kai <k.siwiak at ieee.org>
To: sfdxa at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SFDXA] New LoTW software

ARRL delayed the release of Trusted QSL 1.14 for at least 10 days (May 30) 
because of recently found errors.
I'd wait at lease a month until all the dust settles!
73
Kai

On 5/20/2013 11:12 AM, Bill Marx wrote:
>> After much testing, the ARRL will release a new version of Trusted QSL, the open-source development project responsible for developing and maintaining the three Logbook of the World (*LoTW*
>> <http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world>) client-side applications:
>> TQSL, TQSLCert and the TrustedQSL library. After six weeks of public beta testing, version 1.14 is ready for official release and will be available for download from the ARRL website beginning Monday, May 20.
>>
>> In December 2012, Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ, and Rick Murphy, K1MU, recruited a group of volunteer software developers
>> <http://www.arrl.org/news/logbook-of-the-world-web-page-now-features-daily-and-hourly-status-updates>  to contribute to this project. After considering input from ARRL management and the ARRL's LoTW user support group in the League's Membership and Volunteer Services Department, as well as the ARRL-LoTW e-mail discussion group on Yahoo! Groups, the volunteer development group put forward a set of priorities that would be addressed by a sequence of incremental software releases.
>>
>> A small group of testers began exercising version 1.14 in March 2013; this testing exposed several defects, all of which have been corrected. Testing then progressed to an open beta test period that allowed interested parties to download, install and try out this newest version of Trusted QSL.
>>
>> The initial release in this sequence -- version 1.14 -- includes these new features:
>>
>> * Log files can be signed and uploaded over the internet to LoTW in one operation.
>> * Errors in Station Locations are reported (for example, incorrect CQ and ITU zones).
>> * QSOs that need not be re-submitted  ("duplicates") are brought to the user's attention.
>> * Error reporting has been improved.
>> * Installation on /Windows/ has been improved.
>> * Users are notified when a new version becomes available.
>> * Documentation has been improved.
>>
>> Upgrading to version 1.14 is not mandatory, but is encouraged. Users who choose not to upgrade will not be  able to access the new features in version 1.14, but they will still be able  to upload logs into the LoTW system.
>>
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